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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1901

COLONEL VILLEBOIS-MAREUIL'S NOTES ON THE BOER WAR.

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which is well understood in more parts of Russia than might be supposed from what one sees in print about that country. The Governor-General of the Amur terri- In spite of the somewhat fatuous introduction tory-was-compelled to turn has attention to which prefaces the translation just issued of these dangerous "New Californians." He sent the diary kept by the French "Soldier a trusty official to investigate, a gentlen.an well of Fortune" when in South Africa, one is in- versed in the laws, and then dr after holding clined to think after its perusal (says an Eng. the past of Prosecutor. Apparently this emis.lish paper) that Colonel de Villebois-Mareuil- Bary found" New California good place for owed his notoriety rather to his nationality, a needy official armed with special powers, forit and the manner of his death and burial, than is told how he played cards, and aways won, with to any patent military genius displayed by him the settlers, and generally made friends. There during the campaign. Those who have been _was alsɔ_more_than a suspicion of something privileged to read the orders which he issued exceeding good fellowship, and, on the whole, to his small commando the day before his douth it is evident the Republic gave a Royal wel will already have formed this opinion. These come to its first difcial guest. When the time notes are only a rough diary, kept under the came to go back, it appeared that this gentle stress of compaign, and as such should not be taken too seriously, especially as the Bad man thought to carry off his gains and

Gate which overtook the author left him no forget the other incidents. He did eventually -get back to his Chief, and his story was not opportunity to moderate or revise

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clusions which, to say the least, "New California," he reported, was a re- have been arrived at without due deliberation. 10730) Kularly organised republic of some The letters are typically French, and the reader thousand persons, all armed. It was openly will find in them, almost on every page, some engaged in gold-mining and trading in un- insight into the character of the author-a vain, coined gold (which then involved penal disappointed, cynical old man; yet, when he can servitude), and it paid no heed to his authority, get away from his moted dislike for the British, xor did it heed the Chinese, upon whose his contempt for the apathy of the Boer, and territory it was situated. It had a prejudicialis pique at the spirit in which they received influence upon loyal Russians in the Amur his advice, a courteous gentleman, with all a territory; it sold them gold and used the Frenchman's love and appreciation of the Goverment telegraph freely and openly in picturesque and beautiful. Although his notes its transactions, gold for this purpose going convey little information of either strategical or by the name of "mcal" or "flour." It also tactical value, yet they will fumish pleasant held a large section of the Imperial post. reading to all who have taken an interest in the road in terror, and made deals in illicit campaign. The pictures which he draws of the gold with travellers who sometimes disappeared original Boer commanders are perhaps the most valuable of the notes. His admiration for Cronje for ever. It had no religion to speak of, but a satisfactory form of government, with h public and Louis Botha is as forcibly expressed as his meeting-house, and an elected President whose contempt for General Joubert, Schalk Burger power was wielded according to his views of whose maintenance at Ladysmith the Colonel the wishes of the majority. This President calls an anomaly, and the Generals command- (the first and last) was a young man named ing outside Kimberley, who refused to carry Vassi (7), who had arrived in few years before out the rather desperate plans with which he from Odessa to act as clerk to a firm in furnished them. It is apparent from the entries Blagovêçensk. They had received him, the in the diary that Colonel de Villebois-Mareuil Procuror, very well, but had declined to recog went from laager to laager, and during the few nise his authority. So long as he would be months that he wasat the front he covered a vast boon companion and play at cards with them. deal of country, furnishing the Boer leaders with all was well, but when he wanted to leave with advice and schemes for defence and assault. out promising to hold them blameless before. Apparently he was listened to with every court- the Governor-General they had given him. esy, but there is a note of complaint through- twenty-five lashes and emplied his pockets out his diary that deference shown to him went before setting him over is the Russian side of

no farther than courtesy. His vanity was the river Amur,

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and an abler Russia has probably never had.. ... Korff sent an aide-de-camp-if I am not mistaken it was a Prince Wittgenstein-to Ignashing with certain instructions, in ob edience to which the aide-de-camp, wrote, a nicely worded invitation to President Vassi to come over and confer upon affairs of State. The young President was flatter d at the form of the note, but declined to trust himself in the camp of the enemy. After negotiations enough to settle the visit of a Crowned Head, some satisfactory promises were made-whit they were, there are reasons why no one will ever know-and President Vassi came over to confer with the

Governor-General's wily aide-de-camp. Of course he never returned, and the last heard of him was in Irkutsk, but but whither bound thence no man knows. As

the President of an independent Republic his

destination would naturally be to exalted spheres in St. Petersberg, where, as the renegade Odessa clerk who had dared to proclaim a Republic under the (very nose of the Czar, he was probably incarcerated in that living tomb, the Peter and Paul Fortress. And for anything I or any other but the Czar and two or three at most of his servants know, the "President of New California" may still be raeditating in some dungeon of that terrible Bastille upon his three years' tenure of power, After the capture of the President, the "Republic" was dispersed by a large force of Chinese troops, which Korff caused to be put in motion from Pekin,

IS ́OUR CIVILIZATION A FAILURE ? :

If there is to be a return to the decencies of civilisation in the so-called Anglo-Saxon race or any other (there is apparently nothing to choose between the competitors, for the French and German and Russian participants in the

was made, many of the Boer successeswere, ney- ertheless, based upon his advice. But, although he is ever ready to acknowledge the civility and kindness of the Boers, yet he finds it impossi- ble to keep his contempt for their military pro- wess below the surface. It appears constantly in passages like the following:-

"The impossibility of not taking advantage of Buller's inaction worries and distresses'me. But the Boers are not men you can influence; you must accept them as they are good quali ties and obstinacy combined." Then when they have piquad hiin more than usually he murmurs in cynic vein:-'Their presumption gives way now only before God." His con- tempt for the Boers' adversaries is even greater and is revealed in a score of biting sentences:-

"True, face to face with adversaries of the

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strength of the English, defence alone will suffice. Again, "If the Boers had other ad- versaries than the British, the enemy might In strongly take advantage of these delays." the following passage there is expressed on one leaf of the diary the full measures of the author's bias against us

"People will never understand this war, its duration and the extraordinary success of this passive defence, if the English army is des. It is an army cribed as an European army. without energy, or ideas, or tactics, or moral- I refer to the rank and file; an army which remains stock-still.opposite the Boers because it has neither sufficient worth to do any thing nor enough endurance to abandon its comfort for a matter of three days.

It is a fine thing to demilitarise a nation by degrad ing the military calling to the lowest degree! But since empire in this would is kept by force, let those who abdicate the one cease beto the other--let them take a subordinate position !"

But the Colonel is not even consistent, and bases thost of his most sarcastic conclusions upon inaccurate information. When one realises the childish glee with which the Colonel accepts the command ofthree-score men,andremembers the tragic termination to his brief command, one feels that there is something very pathetic in this diary of a garrulous and courtly old gentleman, whose vanity led him into the belief that he was A great soldier.

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Chinese war seem to have taken the lead in all manner of conceivable or inconceivable cruelty), there will have to be some now development of the primary virtue of doing as one would ba done by. That formula is commonly called by Anglo-Saxons "The Golden Rule" and like so many golden articles it is treated as | much too fine for daily use. "What has become of the Golden Rule"? asked a Jewish correspondent of Mark Twain, with regard to the anti-Semitic mania in Austria. It exists," was the answer, "It continues to sparkle, and is well taken care of It is Exhibit A in the Church's assets, and we pull. it out every Sun-opened all the letters together, With the ea- · day and give it an airing. But you are not permitted to try to smuggle it into this discus sion, where it is irrelevant, and would not feel

ormous correspodence the opening of the letters naturally caused a waste of a good deal of time: He therefore advised the employment of a

at home. It is strictly religious fürnituro, lady at. si sutary, of £200 a year, to open like an acolyte, or a contribution-plate, the letters before the partners arrived, sort or any of these things.'; It has never been in- | them, and give to each member of the firm kis truded into business; and Jewish persecution own letters sq

that he could deal with thèm st dempt at religious passion, it is a business | onco. His prescription was taken, and, in passion. Add that it is a racist passion, spite of the large salary paid, it has been found and the case la seen to be on all fours with profitable. He then went off to examine into those we have been discussing. The spirit of the working of the shop, and found that while race seems to make any aggregate anarchist some of the employees were receiving too towards any other, provided only that one large a salary, others were getting too little, Aggregate in large, and the other apparently Once again his recommendations were put too small to defend itself. The American into effect, with the result that the firm's work people, who still declaim about their glorious is now being done better and at a cheaper rate. revolution, are no more ashamed of the trans-He charges at least to a day for his work, action of buying the people of the Philippines and it need hardly be said that he only recom- Jike cattle, and thien laughtering them into, mends and cannot insist on his suggestions submission, than of the three hundred annual being put into effect-Liverpool Post, lynchings of negroei in the South-New Age.

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